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Cambridge Judge Business School and Esme Learning, an AI-powered digital learning platform, have partnered to provide two six-week online executive education programmes in startup funding and regtech.
Startup Funding: From Pre-Seed to Exit, will help entrepreneurs overcome the trickiest funding challenges facing startups.
RegTech: AI for Financial Regulation, Risk, and Compliance, meanwhile, will prepare risk, compliance, innovation, and data sector business leaders to navigate the complexities of the industry, including technologies such as AI and machine learning that support automated regulation.
Successful programme participants will receive a certificate issued by the Cambridge Judge Business School. The first presentation of
Overall global fintech funding across M&A, PE, and VC deals soared to a new high in H1 2021, according to KPMG’s Pulse of Fintech, a bi-annual report on fintech investment trends.
Dry powder cash reserves, increasing diversification in hubs and subsectors, and strong activity across the world contributed to the record start to 2021, with funding increasing from USD87.1 billion in H2’20 to USD98 billion in H1’21.
Fintech valuations remained very high in H1’21 as investors continued to see the space as attractive and well-performing – a likely driver in the explosion of unicorn births with 163 created in the
Phystech Ventures, a VC firm that has been investing in deeptech since 2013, has prepared a comprehensive analysis on the performance, main trends, and key players in the industry, titled the “Deeptech Outlook 2021”.
Objectway, a global specialist in the Digital Wealth and Asset Management software, announced today the acquisition of Die Software Peter Fitzon (DSW), a primary German provider of Core Banking solutions.
Founded in 1990, Objectway provides leading financial institutions with state-of-the-art technology to support their digital transformation programmes, supplying front-to-back, intelligent and cloud-ready solutions that power up customer engagement, front-office productivity and back-office operational efficiency. Die Software is a leading provider of Core Banking solutions in German-speaking Europe, with more than 35 years of market presence. Its complete, open and modular platform fulfils the needs of prominent private banks,
Kartesia, a European provider of capital solutions for small and mid-sized companies, has provided a financing solution to mid-market private equity firm Sovereign Capital Partners (Sovereign) for two bolt-on acquisitions for its portfolio company, Bioscript.
Founded in 2005 and based in Macclesfield, Bioscript is an independent agency offering medical communications, strategic consultancy, regulatory communications and health economics and outcomes research to top-50 global pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device companies. The company primarily utilises its base of experienced and qualified staff to provide high quality writing and other outsourced services to the end client.
Kartesia’s GBP20 million credit facility will support
JPMorgan Asset Management has expanded its private credit platform with the appointment of Vincent Lu and Brian Van Elslander as co-heads of the newly formed Global Performing Credit group.
Lu and Van Elslander bring extensive experience in private credit and private equity sponsor coverage to the roles, and will report to Meg McClellan, Head of Private Credit at JPMorgan Private Capital.
Global Performing Credit will initially target opportunities in the direct lending segment, with plans to expand into other private credit strategies in the future. The new group will benefit from the scale and resources of JPMorgan’s USD168 billion
Finnish startup Innomost has raised EUR5 million to bring their birch bark innovation into new markets as a sustainable alternative for environmentally harmful ingredients in consumer products.
The funding round was led by Metsä Spring Ltd with Innovestor and angel investors joining the round, which was completed with grants and loans from Business Finland as well as other public financing sources.
The funding will be used to set up a pilot plant in their hometown of Kokkola. Innomost aims to build a production facility capable of producing 20 tonnes of birch bark products per year by 2023. Capital will also
HQ Equita, a partner to SMEs in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland for almost three decades, has acquired a majority stake in the IT security specialist indevis.
The two founders Wolfgang Kurz and Andreas Mayer remain significantly invested and active in their current roles as managing directors.
indevis, headquartered in Munich, is a managed security service provider for customers from the upper mid-market with the core sectors of healthcare, law firms and management consultancies, financial service providers and public administration in the German-speaking region of Europe. Since its founding in 1999, the company has focused exclusively on the topic of IT
Eos Venture Partners (Eos), a venture capital fund focused exclusively on the insurtech sector, has hired Zach Powell as General Partner.
Powell brings deep industry experience to Eos as he has spent the majority of his career as a principal investor in the financial services sector with a focus on insurance. Zach joins from AXIS Capital, where he was Managing Director of AXIS Digital Ventures, the partnership and venture investing arm of the firm. Prior to AXIS, Zach was a Vice President at Swiss Re’s Principal Investments focused on buyout and growth equity investments in financial services throughout the Americas.
Ambri has secured a USD144 million financing to commercialise and grow its daily cycling, long-duration battery system technology, and to build a domestic manufacturing facility.
The latest round of financing was led by strategic investors Reliance New Energy Solar Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Reliance Industries Limited, Paulson & Co, and includes Ambri’s largest shareholder, Bill Gates, new investors, Fortistar, Goehring & Rozencwajg Associates, Japan Energy Fund and others.
Ambri’s long-duration systems, which are based on its patented technology, are designed to break through the cost, longevity and safety barriers associated with lithium-ion batteries—enabling a critically necessary energy storage
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